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Ekun Omi Tears of desert water

Ekun Omi follows the recollections of Agboogun as he goes through a series of epiphanies and past times, riddled with sorrow and heartbreak. Two apparitions come to his aid but can he escape his existential neurosis? An existential crisis evoked by the decisions of migration and its effects on ones identity, congruently we are led into the lives of Lagbaja and Omotola as they question what is worth sacrificing.

  • Femi Bajulaye
    Director
  • Emmanuel Oluwaseyi Bajulaye
    Director
  • Femi Bajulaye
    Writer
  • Priscilla Owusu
    Producer
  • Andy Egwuatu
    Key Cast
    "Agboogun"
  • James Anite
    Key Cast
    "Micheal"
  • Femi Ogunjobi
    Key Cast
    "Obadare"
  • Funmi Olagunju
    Key Cast
    "Adunni"
  • Treasure Obasi-Johnson
    Key Cast
    "Omotola"
  • Emmanuel Bajulaye
    Key Cast
    "Lagbaja"
  • Femi Bajulaye
    Key Cast
    "Masquerade/Man"
  • Ray Miller-Davis
    Production crew
  • Oluwatobi Kenneth Fadoju
    Production crew
  • Joel Rosenberg
    Production crew
  • Tnnith Rosenberg
    Production crew
  • Kong Wako
    Production crew
  • Idris Blac
    Production crew
  • Rita Ade
    Production crew
  • Mariana Jaguite
    Production crew
  • Kira Somerset
    Production crew
  • Tara Taaw
    Production crew
  • Giovanna Cruz Ponci
    Production crew
  • Beatriz Pinto
    Production crew
  • Tioluwadunni Agoro
    Production crew
  • Christian Bajulaye
    Production crew
  • Ibrahim Jammeh Kamanda
    Production crew
  • Hammed King
    Production crew
  • Bobola Oniwura
    Post production crew
  • Juno Jaxxon
    Post production crew
  • Idris Blac
    Post production crew
  • Afolabi Olalekan
    Post production crew
  • Adediji Aderogba
    Post production crew
  • JP Ojobo
    Post production crew
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    24 minutes 20 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 5, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    25,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Nigeria
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Pro res 444
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Femi Bajulaye, Emmanuel Oluwaseyi Bajulaye

Femi Bajulaye is a Nigerian/Yoruba Artist working and based in London. His artistic practice, writing, and film production focus on issues of migration, African identity, the spirituality of Yoruba cosmology, rationale and design consciousness, and philosophical issues about ontology and the Anthropocene. He explores the vastness of Yoruba/ African culture and inevitably the excellence and vastness they provide and inspire through intentionally woven stories and narratives that seek to alter, evoke, and create new emotions, such as Ekun Omi (2024), and future upcoming projects.

Emmanuel Bajulaye is a Nigerian/Yoruba actor and model with multifaceted experience within the fashion industry and an understanding of its processes. He had received training from the top drama schools such as the Identity School of Acting, the Unseen Drama, and the National Youth Theatre where actors like John Boyega, Damson Idris, and Archie Renaux developed and sharpened their skills. His interests include the performing arts, writing, poetry, film Yoruba cosmogony, and studies of cultural and historical significance. Through the exploration of these mediums, he creates discourse around African experiences around the diaspora and cultural existentialism regarding the identity of Black and African people on the continent and across the diaspora. This cultivates and lends him the ability to bring refreshing ideas and perspective to his creativity.

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Director Statement

It is a story of what it means to seek a home away from home. We aim to show how memory informs our experience of the present and the future.

Ekun Omi has been a story in the making for 7 years. It developed into a book of the same name (2020) and a series of paintings and research based on migration and its impact on Africans both in their land and in the diaspora, historically and currently. Stemming from this was the inspiration to explore these topics even further in the film to visually immerse the audience in the story. The film provides a level of immersion that stimulates our ability to empathise and to feel the story at a depth, not many mediums may be capable of.